has it started yet no it hasn't started the test I've done like four holy
bananas here we go okay it's starting the test my ping is three quarters of a
second and my Jitter is over one second
despite spending more money than I'd like to admit renovating my new place
into the Ultimate Dream Tech slash Smart
House we've discovered a pretty big problem that I might even call a fatal
flaw that no amount of new paint 10 gig
Ethernet or smart controls can fix see this zero bars of reception the cell
service at this place is so bad that I can't even complete a speed test and
half the time I try to make a basic phone call it'll end up dropping now
fortunately we've found what might be one of the most clever pieces of
technology that I've played with for a while that will hopefully fix the cell
reception in here for good you know what it won't fix though my corny Segways to
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and I'm complaining though it's time to do something about it now when we bought
this house last year it's not like I didn't know the sell signal was going to
be a problem if you've been keeping up with these videos you'll know that this house uses hydronic heating which
basically means that there's a ton of tubes running through the floors filled
with warm water that's what heats the house it's great because it's super
efficient and relatively low maintenance but it's not great because those tubes
need to be encased in concrete on each
level of the house which heavily blocks cellular and Wi-Fi signals now Wi-Fi was
easy to solve we just added more wireless access points but with cellular
it's a bit tricky I didn't really think
it was going to be a huge deal as long as we had good Wi-Fi but the problem is
that not every cellular provider or phone supports Wi-Fi calling and that
doesn't help with SMS which is really hit or miss in inside the walls but that
is still something we can solve we just need a cell repeater like we have at the
office which is essentially a Juiced up antenna that you install at the highest
point and then aim at the nearest cell phone tower that is then connected to
points inside the building that will boost the signal for your phone the
problem with the cell computer industry though is that unlike many other areas
of Technology there isn't really a big DIY community and most of the whole Home
Solutions are sold directly through installers which means that there isn't
a lot of reviewers or reviews in general and a lot of installers sell only one
brand of repeater that they absolutely swear by there's no Linus cellular tips
if you catch my drift to add insult to injury basically every manufacturer
seems to think that their cell booster is just gosh darn the best so how on
Earth do you know what to buy we tried talking to the company who's doing the
renovation on our house shermar and they said that after installing several
different systems over the years specked by the installers that they
subcontracted basically none of them ever worked as described because you see
99 of the cell repeaters on the market are analog and therefore subject to
signal loss so they typically work like this the donor cell signal from the
nearby cell tower is picked up by the outdoor antenna then that signal travels
along a coax cable to an amplifier which boosts it then it runs along another
coax cable to your indoor antenna which broadcasts the signal to your phone that
means that regardless of the fact that you are boosting the signal there's
going to be loss between that outdoor antenna and the amplifier and again
between the amplifier and the indoor antenna then when you're talking about something like a small house or an RV
the cable runs end up being pretty short so it's not that big of a deal when you
scale up to say 5 000 or 10 000 or 20
000 square foot house or facility those systems tend not to work so great then
we stumbled upon something way a cooler this is the cell Phi quattra system
and it's digital that means as soon as
the signal gets to the main router thing they call it a network unit the signal
gets digitized and can be sent hundreds of feet over PoE Ethernet or kilometers
over fiber with no signal loss to what is essentially kind of like how an
access point would behave in a wi-fi system they call it a coverage unit
though not an access point the coverage unit itself then amplifies the digitized
signal and broadcasts it this allows them to use the Quattro system to Boost
cell signals in buildings in the hundreds of thousands of square feet
range it also means that if there's a certain carrier that has way stronger
signal than the others it doesn't just get boosted to Infinity the system can
automatically balance them on each coverage unit the guys at waveform.com
Who provided us with this gear had us walk around the house and do a series of
signal tests to determine the best place to put the antenna and that ended up
being right here above the garage the bad news is that it's a little bit too
far are from the mechanical room to run the cable from the antenna on the roof
to their Network unit they want to keep that within about 100 feet to avoid too
much signal loss because that's still analog so instead we're going to put the
network unit right here in the garage where it's a nice short run then we're
going to run our Ethernet cables which go to each of the repeaters or what do
they call them coverage units from here and you can see the network guys have
actually already run those for us so we're pretty much ready to go ooh I got
one of the coverage units here
I do not uh I do not understand this
ventilation hole pattern does it look cool it does look cool that's probably
what they were going for oh I also said just send us a bunch of
cable just in case wow look at how
it's a lot of conductor this is probably the craziest coax I've
ever seen so what we didn't mention earlier is I reached out to probably
20 different cell repeater manufacturers
and I didn't even get as much as a reply from any of them it was the same one I
was shopping for the office yeah but I reached out to waveform who is a
retailer and they got back to me like within 10 minutes they were like oh yeah
that sounds awesome I'm gonna have good cookies here we are cookie oh is it
actually a branded cookie holy crap that's a that's next level it literally
is branded branded cookie okay last box
that's another yeah okay please read I'll do that after we'll read that after
we install it so we got another coverage unit okay
attack another coverage unit yeah so we should have four the original plan was
to do one per floor but I also asked them to send a fourth one in case we
wanted to put it in the garage so we got our land in that's where our networking
is going to come from the server room and then see you one two three four for
each of the coverage units there's also a lan out maybe oh I think you can have
multiple of these you can have like because all this land is doing is just
the signal uh to the web panel to control it right
um but like in a warehouse you might need a couple of these I guess that's fair yeah so what are we thinking
aesthetically like we put a little shelf here maybe put actually maybe we can
just do a couple L brackets we do like a rack mount UPS this little yeah one
power goes out thinking a rack mount ups with just one of those 2u sure wall rack
things and then this boy could maybe just go like right here we'll just whoa
Linus is the reason I have trust issues nope there you go so do we do we bother
cutting these back or should we just terminate them where they are and just leave a spool on the wall just do one of
those oh that's super
you know what you can do it however you want Jake apparently this is your
project now the number of times I've been overridden on my own house
he's got a wife and a employee
Jake this is your idea of getting the ladder ready yeah where am I climbing to
Narnia Linus you don't need either of those things
yet oh I don't need the antenna yet well you want the J pool first right yeah
that makes sense and where does it go exactly I was thinking we'll just put it
on the siding up and then it'll just point that way kind of oh okay which
wait which direction do you want to point that way that way roughly and this
corner would definitely get better then so we got our Hardware on basically you
can tighten these boys up when you're ready to lock it into place
boom just like that I think we got to move the ladder I can't reach from here
you're not going there you're going on the white on the white yeah on the top
it's going to be hideous that's what I was saying we should put it over here I
don't want to put it on the floor no it doesn't even fit look put it the
other way then what like that no I'm not gonna have a dong or hanging
off the side of my fascia board like that yeah you are no I'll put it on the
siding oh
yeah that seems adjustable you look adjustable well you look adjustable
oh dang it you were always good at the short side
of things damn it buddy okay so it's gonna have to come down pretty low to
make room for that giant shark fin isn't it where do you know what the what thing
the shark fin how does the shark fin actually go on
here like that yeah just like that
oh my God just get it Fuller full erect it's gonna be right under the light too
oh I'm gonna move around my shark fin
ah so it sticks off that way
roughly hold on are there any other wrong though are there any other options
like let me double check our bearing the cell tower is basically like there okay
so either Corner either side is fine put it on the back so you don't have to see
it so much but it's right under the light and I can see it anyway why don't
you put it on that side then yeah sure you want to do it all right
yeah let's do it there let's all right cool all right screw me
oh they're on top of the mantle oh oh really Jake Andy can you see the screws
no wait I got the muffler without going on the mat yeah okay this is fine all right
it's on wow looks kind of gross I've only done
this once when we did that ubiquity thing he
doesn't play with poles often not my
favorite way to dance you know okay how's it look
awful well yeah I mean but like foreign
all right that's what I'm hoping all right time for this thick boy coax cable
to go on oh yeah right so there's supposed to be a lightning surge
protector doodad like right here and there will be once the professional
electrician does all this but we're just testing for now it's a little
discouraging is that it still shows this network unit is offline I think
maybe it just doesn't turn online until there's a booster connected to it
possible no stools at the new place but we do have extra spools of network cable
left over so I'll use that so I'm just gonna Jam this up here I
guess all right where's the uh indoor unit
it's in there well you could have instead of standing there you could have
gotten it yeah well this guy oh okay so
maybe it just doesn't do stuff until it's plugged into stuff yeah maybe this
was in the documentation that you like chucked aside at the beginning you can
see the little Cloud's unhappy it's not connected and then if I click on the
site the network unit also shows us not
online still oh covered unit 2 connected
enabled 2 in this system oh I can go plug it into two I guess no no I mean it
doesn't matter like maybe it does matter but it's not doing anything port number
two it says part two what hi so
interestingly enough I moved the CO2 to just CO2 just so their match I think
they're just named in here whatever yeah we're just calling this one cu2 it shows
as link status connected let me just check cu1 which isn't connected and see
if it also shows this connected or not oh it still shows us connected so that
means nothing great we're nowhere like should I just call them and see yeah I
think we should call them at this point um okay so what are you saying about once okay well I'm just gonna check it
again now because something has changed we were just we were having issues getting the network unit to connect to
the network I have four bars hold on I think it might be working let me go
inside I turned off my Wi-Fi
and it's time to go again here this is already better okay now we're
talking no these are not the fastest speeds on the face of the Earth but wow
is that ever an improvement over last time around that's awesome
I don't even have that thing mounted correctly she messed with it it's off again
Jake did you mess with it had four bars and then it dropped down
to one okay
super jankly connected right to the wreck let's see if it goes online
my money is on this cable is bunk so we were just on the phone with the guys
over at waveform because we were having some issues I think it's that there is a
problem with this network cable because look at that active
I mean this might have to update a sec but it shows the system is online we
just plugged it in with a little shorty cable and now it's happy so Moment of
Truth we tried the new connectors the ones that I brought from home
but I had no trouble what it lit right up did it oh it did I
couldn't see it from here let's see if it did it looks like it's doing though
to clarify this is without even dialing in the antenna position Moment of Truth
oh yeah my Jitter is literally a hundred
times better wow whoa 10 you can actually like okay I know like 12
megabit is not something to be excited about but you had basically zero before
yeah let's see if you can upload come on show me the upload what
oh
uh okay brother I don't know how the math works
on that that's an Infinity increase yeah yeah pretty much lost zero percent does
it work then yes I'm honestly perfectly
happy with this this is good enough to have like a video call I'd be like 20 up
20 down good enough that's great I'm stoked
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for watching guys and huge shout out to selfie and waveforms Who provided all
the sick Hardware that we installed today and it's such a game changer yeah
like sure 20 up 20 down not that fast
but compared to zero nothing test failed I'm I'm stoked you can check
them out in the video description they've got gear for boosting sell signals in a vehicle all the way up to
multi hundred thousand square foot offices and warehouses if you're looking
for something else to watch why not check out the unlimited budget Wi-Fi upgrade we did in this house a few
months ago all the aps are removed at the moment for drywall and finishing but
they'll be back up soon enough